Game apparatus.



C. L. CROUSE.

GAME APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED AUGJI. |917.

l ,27% 39 Patented Sept. 3, 1918.

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CHARLES L. CROUSE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME APPARATUS.

Application mea August a7, 1917.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. CRoUsE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in game apparatus and more particularly, to a puzzle or game which oifers amusement and requires skill in the performance thereof.

A further object is to provide a game apparatus which consists of a plurality of blocks of various shapes adapted to be manipulated so as to form a cross.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements'of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a plan view showing, in full lines, the arrangement of blocks in their box and, in dotted lines, the cross which is formed by manipulating the blocks, and

Fig. 2 is a view in section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

1 represents a box of the necessary dimensions to accommodate my improved blocks.

I provide in the box 1, three sets of blocks 2, 3 and 4 respectively. The blocks 2 are the largest; they are of general oblong shape and occupy one half of the box space. The blocks 3 are of the same length as the blocks 2 but are just half the width of the blocks 2, so that while I employ the same number of blocks 3 as I do of the blocks 2, the blocks 3 will occupy only one fourth of the box space. The blocks 4 are o-f the same width as blocks 2 but are only one half as long; I employ the same number of blocks 4 as I do 2 and 3, and the blocks 4 occupy one fourth of the box space.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, 'by addressing the Commissioner Washington, D. C.

4Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 191e.

Serial No. 188,277.

The blocks 2, 3 and 4 are of two different colors, some preferably are red and some are white, this being true of each set of blocks, so that there are in the box both red and white blocks of all shapes and in the initial position of the blocks they are preferably arranged alternately red and White as shown.

To play the game, one of the large blocks 2 is removed, and then the other blocks are manipulated in the box without removing them from the box, so as to form a red cross, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Various slight changes may be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my invention and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A game apparatus, comprising a box, three series of blocks filling the box, the same number of blocks being provided in each series, one' series of blocks occupying Ione half of the box space, a second series of blocks occupying one fourth of the box space, and being of the same length, and but one half the width of the first mentioned series of blocks, and the third series of blocks occupying one fourth of the box space and of one half Jdie length of the first mentioned series of blocks, but of the same width as the rst mentioned series of blocks.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES L. CROUSE.

Witnesses:

KATHRYN A. SUMMERS, AGNES M. COTTER.

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